Using Visualbox in a virtual machine

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alangrafu edited this page Nov 7, 2012 · 6 revisions

Import Visualbox VM

First, you need Virtualbox to run this virtual machine. Go to the VirtualBox homepage and download the latest version of VirtualBox
Download http://visualbox.org/visualbox.ova (550MB) which is a VirtualBox appliance
Go to File > Import Appliance and select the .ova file you just downloaded

Step 1

Remember to disable USB ports, in case you don't have the Virtualbox USB plugins

Step 2

With this VM selected, click in Settings > Network and select the network interface that is active in your computer. Keep the option Brigded Adapter.

Step 3b

Finally, you are ready to go, run visualbox.org in your machine

Step 3

In the login screen use '''user''' and '''pass''' as user/password. It is ''highly recommended''' you change the password if you plan to use this VM in production.
After that, put in your browser the address http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX shown in the terminal.You should see something like the following figure

Step 5

The first thing you want to do is going to the administrator menu. Click on the link in the first box. The server will ask you for authentication. Use '''admin''' as user and password.

Step 6

Step 7

You can click on '''Go to the editor''' to start creating new visualizations

Step 8

What you will see now is the component editor, where you can edit or create new visualizations. You can check How to create a new visualization now.

Step 9

#What's next?

How to create a new visualization
Adding and editing Endpoints